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    We Were Paying for What? Trump HHS Slashes Hundreds of Millions in Woke LGBTQ Grants

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grants dedicated to researching illegal sexual behavior in children, pregnancy prevention for “transgender boys,” and so-called sleep inequality affecting black sexual-minority men.   In March, HHS canceled at least $530 million of funding for LGBTQ+ health…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Yes, Trump Could Serve a Third Term. Law Professor Explains How

    President Donald Trump could not run for a third term, but he could be president a third time, according to Cornell law professor Bill Jacobson.   The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is clear that no one can be elected to the office of the president “more than twice.”   “But there’s nothing in the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Backs Luna’s Bill to Allow New Parents in Congress to Vote by Proxy

    President Donald Trump has endorsed the bill that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., left the House Freedom Caucus over, which would allow proxy voting for members of Congress who are new parents. “I don’t know why it’s controversial,” the president told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday. Luna left the conservative Freedom Caucus over…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Backs Senate’s Budget Plan: ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

    President Donald Trump threw his support to the Senate’s budget plan Wednesday, as he called on Republicans to unify and pass a bill that would ensure that his 2017 tax cuts are extended and funding is provided for border security and other campaign promises. “Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John…
    George Caldwell
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    ‘Set Us Free’: Ice Cream Socialists Want Their Brand Back After Melting Down Over Trump

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Ben & Jerry’s founders are trying to take their brand back after parent company Unilever allegedly barred them from criticizing President Donald Trump in the lead-up to his return to the White House. Co-founder Ben Cohen is now publicly lobbying to buy Ben & Jerry’s back as Unilever prepares to spin off…
    Thomas English
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    Tariffs Will Be ‘Not Full Reciprocal,’ Trump Announces on ‘Liberation Day’

    President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that his promised tariffs will “kind reciprocal.” At what he called a “Liberation Day” event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Trump said the tariffs that he announced will be “not full reciprocal,” but “approximately half” of what foreign countries levy on American imports. “This is kind…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Pauses Federal Funding for Some Planned Parenthood Facilities

    The Trump administration is following through on its promise to withhold funding from abortion provider Planned Parenthood.  Nine Planned Parenthood regional affiliates received notice Monday that the federal funding they were receiving through the law known as Title X is being temporarily withheld, according to a report from Politico. The administration is looking into possible…
    Moira Gleason
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    She Lived American Dream, Sees That Same Spirit of Opportunity Again in Trump Admin

    What a difference two months or so can make. Just since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, Rep. Harriet Hageman says she has seen “a lot of hope” among Americans.  “We are in the middle of a renaissance, and when I'm home, I feel that,” Hageman, R-Wyo., said.  America is a “land of…
    Virginia Allen
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    Be Careful What You Wish For: Biden’s Firing of a Trump Appointee Boomerangs Big Time

    Roger Severino sued then-President Joe Biden in 2021 for dismissing him before the end of his term on an independent agency called the Administrative Conference of the United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision against Severino laid the groundwork for the court’s decision on Friday that President Donald Trump can…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Deportations Hit 100,000 Under Trump

    The Trump administration has carried out more than 100,000 deportations since Jan. 20, The New York Post first reported. In fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s pledge to arrest and remove illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has also made 113,000 arrests.   “He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!” an ICE…
    Virginia Allen
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    SATIRE: 10 Things Trump Will Rename This Week 

    After President Donald Trump’s great success renaming the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, the president is preparing to declare he has the sole power to rename anything he wants.  The Daily Signal was added to a group chat called “Top Secret Renaming Small Group” by a Snapchat user, in which the Trump administration discussed…
    Moira Gleason
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    Memer-in-Chief: How Donald Trump Took the Digital Town Square by Storm

    President Donald Trump has made massive inroads with Gen Z voters through an alternative media strategy that took the president’s message directly to the digital town square. As a deputy assistant to the president and White House deputy communications director, Kaelan Dorr is a key player in executing Trump’s digital media strategy. He joined a…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Florida Special Elections for House Seen as Barometer on Trump Policies

    Two special elections Tuesday for House seats from Florida will be a test of the popularity of the first 70 days of President Donald Trump’s second term and will decide whether or not Republicans can maintain their already slender margin of control in the House of Representatives. The stakes are high. With four seats currently…
    George Caldwell
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    Left-Wing Groups Call on Federal Election Agency to Defy Trump Executive Order

    A coalition of left-leaning organizations is urging the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to defy President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity.  Trump on Tuesday issued the order that, among other things, requires federal voter registration forms require proof of citizenship and would cut federal funding to states that count mail-in ballots arriving after Election…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s America First Trade Revolution Is a Win for Working Families 

    President Donald Trump is ending outdated trade policies that harm hard-working Americans.   Naturally, globalist elites are spitting mad that the United States is finally putting the interests of American workers, families, and communities over the pocketbooks of self-anointed “citizens of the world.”  Here are four ways Trump’s trade policies are restoring respect for America:  1) Demanding…
    Kevin Roberts
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    ‘NOT JOKING’: Trump Outlines Potential Road to Third Term

    President Donald Trump is “not joking” about seeking a third term in the Oval Office, he told NBC News Sunday morning. “There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a phone interview from Mar-a-Lago. One of those methods, he said, is having Vice President JD Vance run for president with Trump as…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    How Trump Is Decimating the Left’s Patronage Networks

    President Donald Trump has launched a political counterrevolution in the early days of his second presidency. One of the most profound ways he’s doing this is by effectively cutting off the Left’s massive, government-funded patronage networks.  What’s making Trump’s moves so effective is that many of these networks are based on government functions that long…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Inside President Trump’s Ambitious Policy Strategy

    President Donald Trump’s pace since returning to the White House has surprised the president’s friends, perhaps even more than his enemies. On the 66th day of his administration, Trump signed the 100th executive order of his second term, breaking FDR’s record of 99 executive orders in the first 100 days. While Trump plows ahead, the…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Deep State Union Gears Up to Sue After Trump Weakens Its Ability to Undermine National Security

    The American Federation of Government Employees is the tip of the deep state spear, taking President Trump to court as he tries to rein in the federal bureaucracy. AFGE promised yet another lawsuit Thursday, shortly after Trump signed an executive order removing the privilege of collective bargaining from a host of federal employees. “AFGE is…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Administration Halts ‘COVID-19’ Education Spending Spree, Sends Savings to Treasury

    On Friday, the Trump administration took another step toward reining in wasteful government spending and narrowing Washington’s role in K-12 education. The Department of Education announced that it would be modifying the liquidation period for states to spend remaining COVID-19 “relief” dollars, giving them until close of business on March 28 to obligate any remaining…
    Lindsey Burke
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